Neot, monk and hermit, c.877Commemoration
31 July

According to tradition and later legend Neot was a monk of Glastonbury
who became a hermit in Cornwall. Possibly he was a kinsman of King
Alfred, and it has been suggested (though it seems unlikely) that it
is Neot whose image appears on the Alfred Jewel, found at Athelney and
now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. After his death his remains
were removed to a monastery at Eynesbury around which grew the town of
St Neots.